How to create a custom navigation drawer in android

Hi I'm trying to create a navigation drawer similar to gmail app navigation drawer. I follow the developer site but it only specify about basic implementation. But I need to customize the navigation according to my specifications.

1. I need to add a header to categorize the list item in Drawer
2. I need a radio button to select some of my options

How can I do this?

Solution 1:

The tutorial Android Custom Navigation Drawer (via archive.org) contains a basic and a custom project. The latter shows how to setup a Navigation Drawer as shown in the screenshot:

The source code of the projects (via archive.org) is available for download.

The is also the Navigation Drawer - Live-O project ...

The source code of the project is available on GitHub.

The MaterialDrawer library aims to provide the easiest possible implementation of a navigation drawer for your application. It provides a great amount of out of the box customizations and also includes an easy to use header which can be used as AccountSwitcher.

Please note that Android Studio meanwhile has a template project to create a Navigation Drawer Activity as shown in the screenshot.

This repository keeps track of changes being made to the template.

Solution 2:

I used below layout and able to achieve custom layout in Navigation View.

<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
        android:id="@+id/navi_view"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="start|top"
        android:background="@color/navigation_view_bg_color"
        app:theme="@style/NavDrawerTextStyle">

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:orientation="vertical">

            <include layout="@layout/drawer_header" />

            <include layout="@layout/navigation_drawer_menu" />
        </LinearLayout>
</android.support.design.widget.NavigationView>